The world recently lost one of the most profound voices of our time, Toni Morrison. This Nobel laureate and recipient of the Presidential Medal of …
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Meredith Browand
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9/1/19
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In July I spent a week in the North Cascades, in the shadow of Mount Baker. It reminded me that we are blessed to live amid some of the most …
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Dan Whitmarsh
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9/1/19
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As I walked down the dusty gravel road, carrying my brown paper lunch bag, happily anticipating the first day of school in the second grade, I twirled …
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Phyllis Henry
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9/1/19
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In the early hours of June 24, thieves forced entry into the Lakebay Post Office, stealing mail and packages and leaving security-minded post office box holders wondering …
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Alice Kinerk, KP News
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8/1/19
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The Case Inlet toxic bloom is one of several tracked around the Key Peninsula.
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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8/1/19
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Unsightly and unhealthy, fresh water algae blooms are becoming more common.
On July 8, Don Thomson found himself posting signs warning …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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8/1/19
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The Key Peninsula is a community where being different turns out to be a very good thing. When the Key Peninsula News joined the Washington …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor, KP News
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8/1/19
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Volunteering for civic organizations on the Key Peninsula is often associated with rearranging furniture, separating the recyclables, and raising enormous …
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Ted Ralston
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8/1/19
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If you’re lucky enough to live on the Key Peninsula, you probably have the chance to visit Puget Sound beaches more often than the …
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Nancyrose Houston
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8/1/19
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First to break the morning stillness is the drumming and wik-wik-wik of a flicker, muffled somewhat by a thick clump of alder and cedars. A band-tailed pigeon …
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Joseph Pentheroudakis
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8/1/19
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Washington State is located in the soggy northwest corner of the continental U.S. The Key Peninsula is the southernmost peninsula of Puget Sound, an inner …
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Alice Kinerk
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8/1/19
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8/1/19
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Thank you for another great edition of the KP News in July. I’ve had the honor to pilot a couple of Honor Flights. We treat these as an opportunity to show our respect for the …
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8/1/19
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An accidental summer guest flew in on a wing and quickly realized he’d made a big mistake. Like most startled birds, he instinctively flew …
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Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor
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7/1/19
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To my knowledge, scientific inquiry into the topic of Corpulent Polarity is limited. My serious research began in the early 1980s, …
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Carolyn Wiley, KP News
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7/1/19
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Because an earthquake could happen at any moment, a wise thing to know is what to do when that earthquake begins. Here are the first of nine steps that emergency …
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Curt Scott
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7/1/19
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Remember the last time you were wading at the shore in your bare feet, anticipating the next wave, letting the water rush over your toes and up your ankles and …
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Vicki Husted Biggs
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7/1/19
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Last fall my wife and I were approached by a good friend of ours who has a developmentally delayed (we shall henceforth refer to this as DD) son of …
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Rob Vajko
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7/1/19
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Lisa Bryan
Lisa Bryan, Executive Editor, KP News
It began with a chorus of frogs heralding the arrival of spring, a profusion of hardy flowering bulbs, followed by blossoming fruit trees – …
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6/1/19
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On a hot Saturday night in July our family ate supper a bit early and then Dad washed the dishes while Mom got the rest of us ready to celebrate the marriage of my …
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Phyllis Henry
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6/1/19
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